Institut Français des Alpes (Annecy, France): Summer 2003
intensive French classes

L'Université Catholique de Lyon (Lyon, France): Summer 2002
intensive French classes through the Institut de Langue et Culture Françaises

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (Carbondale, Illinois): Fall 1999 - Summer 2002
M.A. in English (4.0 grade point average)
200-page thesis entitled Early America in Milton: Miltonic Anxiety over America as Ideal State and Milton as "American"

Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (Edwardsville, Illinois): Summer 2000

Alliance Française de Saint Louis (Saint Louis, Missouri): Spring 1999

Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisconsin): Fall 1995 - Spring 1998
B.A. in English (magna cum laude)
230-page honors project entitled The Last Gospel

Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio): Fall 1994 - Winter 1995

Edwardsville High School (Edwardsville, Illinois): Fall 1990 - Spring 1994
high school diploma

Edwardsville Junior High School (Edwardsville, Illinois): Fall 1988 - Spring 1990

LeClaire Elementary School (Edwardsville, Illinois): Fall 1984 - Spring 1988
third through sixth grade

Field School (Pasadena, California): Fall 1983 - Spring 1984
second grade

Sierra Madre Elementary School (Sierra Madre, California): Fall 1982 - Spring 1983
first grade

1. Fragments of a Formerly Active Sex Life (a brief poetic epic). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 14 February 2002.
2. Nostalgia in Three Acts (a play). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 21 January 2002.
3. Peace (a graphic novel script). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 25 December 2001.

1. Essays in Search of a Medium (an essay collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Academic Nationalist University Press, 6 October 2002.
2. Parnassiad (a poetry collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 31 March 2002.
3. The Rooms and The Rituals (a graphic novel script). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 31 December 2001.
4. The Times They Are A-Ending (a graphic novel script). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 22 November 2001.
5. CLOSE (a poetry collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 6 October 2001.

1. Early America in Milton (or The Garden and The Tower): Miltonic Anxiety Over America as Ideal State and Milton as "American" (a scholarly non-fiction book). Saint Louis, Missouri: Academic Nationalist University Press, forthcoming.
2. Sequential Culture, Volume 1 (an essay collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Academic Nationalist University Press, forthcoming.
3. The Matriarchy (a non-fiction book on gender). Saint Louis, Missouri: Academic Nationalist University Press, forthcoming.
4. A Fistful of Essays (an essay collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Academic Nationalist University Press, forthcoming.
5. The Annihilation of Longing (a poetry collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, forthcoming.
6. Amazon Tails (a collection of graphic short story scripts). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, forthcoming.
7. Essays on Shakespeare (an essay collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Academic Nationalist University Press, forthcoming.
8. SHOOT and Other Stories (a collection of short motion picture scripts). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, forthcoming.
9. GENRE (a short story collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, forthcoming.
10. Essays on Milton (an essay collection). Saint Louis, Missouri: Academic Nationalist University Press, forthcoming.
11. Optical Noise / Digital Zoom (a graphic novella). Saint Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, forthcoming.

• authored entirely by Julian Darius
• includes
  • information about and samples of published work,
  • additional various works, including scholarly resources essays, art, and a weekly column,
  • information about the author (including this vitae)
• usage information available at http://www.persiancaesar.com/usage.htm
• located
  • at persiancaesar.com from February 2001 - present
  • on Antioch University's computer science server (at tychonic.antioch.edu/~creator), August 1998 - January 2001
  • on both Lawrence University's server and Antioch college's computer science server from approximately July 1996 - July 1998
  • on Lawrence University's server from approximately November 1995 - June 1996
• also available at juliandarius.com

• authored extensively and created by Julian Darius
• includes
  • Continuity Pages, scholarly resources on comic books and graphic novels,
  • columns, reviews, articles, annotations, chronologies of creators' careers, and interviews relating to comic books and graphic literature
• usage information available at http://www.continuitypages.com/history.htm
• located
  • at continuitypages.com from August 2002 - present
  • as a part of Persian Caesar (at its various locations) from 1997 - August 2002

• "Going Home" (a short story). www.acomonsense.com: 1 December 2002. A Common Sense is an online literary magazine. At the time of publication, new issues appeared on a bi-monthly basis, their contents entirely available from the root page, with archives of old issues also available.
• "Regret and Self" (a poem). www.acomonsense.com: 1 December 2002.

1. "Car Crash Crucifixion Culture" (an essay). Car Crash Culture, ed. Mikita Brottman. New York City, New York: Palgrave (Saint Martin's Press), January 2002. Pages 305-317. Also mentioned on pages xix and xli.
2. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Daily Egyptian 87.78. Carbondale, Illinois: 18 January, 2002. A response to a story of racism and academic success. Daily Egyptian was Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's newspaper.
3. "The Hierarchical Sight of The Modern Diogenes" (a poem). Tropos. Appleton, Wisconsin: Lawrence University, 1998. Tropos was an annual publication showcasing the best poetry, prose, and artwork of Lawrence University faculty and students.
4. "The Problems with Lawrence We Don't Talk About" (an editorial). The Lawrentian. Appleton, Wisconsin: 23 October 1997. The Lawrentian was Lawrence University's newspaper.
5. "Relationship Afterglow" (a poem). Outstanding Achievements: Award-Winning Verse from Around the World. Sterling Heights, Michigan: Cader Publishing, 1997. The same poem was previously printed by the same publisher in an earlier volume.
6. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). The Book of Fate 1.8. New York City, New York: September 1997.
7. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Hellblazer 1.116. New York City, New York: August 1997.
8. "An Open Letter to Grant Morrison" (a letter). The Invisibles, Volume Two 1.6. New York City, New York: July 1997. Grant Morrison himself responded in print.
9. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Impulse 1.27. New York City, New York: July 1997.
10. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Hellblazer 1.114. New York City, New York: June 1997.
11. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Supreme: The New Adventures 1.48. Fullerton, California: May 1997.
12. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Aztek: The Ultimate Man 1.6. New York City, New York: January 1997.
13. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Impulse 1.21. New York City, New York: January 1997.
14. "Letter to the Editor" (a letter). Kurt Busiek's Astro City 1.5. Anaheim, California: December 1995.
15. "Letter to the Community" (a letter). The Antioch Record. Yellow Springs, Ohio: circa 6 October 1995. The Antioch Record was Antioch College's weekly newspaper.
16. "Letter to the Community" (a letter). The Antioch Record 50.19. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 10 March 1995.
17. "Adler's Workshop Criticized" (a satire). The Antioch Record 50.18. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 3 March 1995.
18. "Attrition Statistics Unmasked" (an editorial). The Antioch Record 50.17. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 24 February 1995.
19. "Organization and Tactics Workshop" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.17. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 24 February 1995.
20. "Letter to the Community" (a letter). The Antioch Record 50.17. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 24 February 1995.
21. "Empty Space in Sontag Fels?" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.16. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 17 February 1995.
22. "The Race for Community Manager is on!" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.15. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 10 February 1995.
23. "An Open Letter to Gerry Bello" (a letter). The Antioch Record 50.13. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 27 January 1995.
24. "The Little Art Theatre" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.13. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 27 January 1995.
25. "Adcil Notes" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.12 (misprinted without the number). Yellow Springs, Ohio: 20 January 1995.
26. "Letter to the community" (a letter written with Josh Steiner). The Antioch Record 50.12 (misprinted without the number). Yellow Springs, Ohio: 20 January 1995.
27. "James Kieth Pillow Remembered" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.11 (mislabeled vol. 63). Yellow Springs, Ohio: 13 January 1995.
28. "Alumna Mari Michener Dies at 74" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.11 (mislabeled vol. 63). Yellow Springs, Ohio: 13 January 1995.
29. "Electronic Library Explained" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.10. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 9 December 1994.
30. "Theater Thieves Take Technology" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.10. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 9 December 1994.
31. "Interview with a Religious Antiochian" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.8. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 18 November 1994.
32. "On Conventionalisms and Hypocrisy at Antioch" (an editorial). The Antioch Record 50.5. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 28 October 1994.
33. "New Facelift for Antioch" (an article written with Marcus Pfeffinger). The Antioch Record 50.5. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 28 October 1994.
34. "Admissions accepts entry into Weston" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.4. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 21 October 1994.
35. "New Music Faculty" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.3. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 14 October 1994.
36. "Sussman Interrogated" (an article). The Antioch Record 50.2. Yellow Springs, Ohio: 7 October 1994.
37. additional articles and editorials printed in The Tiger Times (the newspaper of Edwardsville High School): Spring 1993 - Spring 1994
38. "Violence Desensitization Versus Knowledge Accumulation" (an editorial). The Tiger Times 3.5. Edwardsville, Illinois: April 1994.
39. "Zero Hour to Come This Summer" (an article). The Tiger Times 3.5. Edwardsville, Illinois: April 1994.
40. "Hellblazer Reaching Milestone" (an article). The Tiger Times 3.5. Edwardsville, Illinois: April 1994.
41. "Von Talge at Olympics" (an article). The Tiger Times 3.5. Edwardsville, Illinois: April 1994.

1. "Exposing Status Quo Super-Heroics in Mark Millar's The Authority," delivered at the Hawai'i International Conference on Arts and Humanities at the Sheraton Hotel in Waikiki (Honolulu, Hawai'i): Sunday, 12 January 2003
2. "Bondage to the Image: A Case Study of Fin-de-Siècle Sexual Bondage in Cinema," delivered at the 56th Annual Conference of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) at Ithaca College (Ithaca, New York): Friday, 9 August 2002
3. "Intellectualism in Oliver Stone Films," delivered at the 55th Annual Conference of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) in Rochester, New York: Friday, 3 August 2001
4. "An Apology for Some Recent, Popular, and Lucrative Films," delivered at the same conference: Thursday, 2 August 2001
5. "We're Rarely Making Movies," delivered at the same conference: Wednesday, 1 August 2001
6. "The Pains, Pleasures, and Mendacities of Nixon: Biopic Tensions Between Narrative Expectations and Human Nature," delivered at the 26th Annual Conference on Literature and Film at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida): Friday, 2 February 2001
7. "Latent Pedophilia and Shirley Temple Films: Dirty Shirley One Year Later," delivered at the 54th Annual Conference of UFVA at Colorado College (Colorado Springs, Colorado): Friday, 18 August 2000
8. "The Homosexual (Homophobic?) Subtext of the Films of Oliver Stone," delivered at the same conference: Wednesday, 16 August 2000
9. "Belfast and New York in the Fiction of Garth Ennis," delivered at the 12th Graduate Irish Studies Conference at Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, California): Saturday, 25 March 2000
10. "Time as Mental Elusive Blending Reincarnating Antichronological Illusion. In A Child's Night Dream. A Novel by Oliver Stone." delivered at the 25th Annual Conference on Literature and Film at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida): Thursday, 27 January 2000
11. "Pushing Cinematic Cinema: Eisenstein and Oliver Stone (Since JFK)," delivered at the 53rd Annual Conference of UFVA at Emerson University (Boston, Massachusetts): Saturday, 7 August 1999
12. "Latent Pedophilia in the Films of Shirley Temple," delivered at the same conference: Friday, 6 August 1999
13. "Symbolic and Moral Structure in Natural Born Killers," delivered at Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisconsin): Wednesday, 7 April 1999
14. "Stylization of Violence in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers," delivered at the 24th Annual Conference on Film and Literature at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida): Friday, 30 January 1999
15. "Drive to Motion: The Development of the Motion Picture in the Cult of Motion," delivered at the 52nd Annual Conference of UFVA at North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem, North Carolina): Friday, 7 August 1998
16. "Film and the Comic Strip as Sequential Art Media," delivered at the same conference: Friday, 7 August 1998

1. reader / singer (extensive selections from Parnassiad and The Annihiliation of Longing), StudioOne (Honolulu, Hawaii): Thursday, 19 June 2003
2. reader / singer (selections from CLOSE), StudioOne (Honolulu, Hawaii): Thursday, 12 June 2003
3. featured speaker (45 minutes of selections from CLOSE and Parnassiad) and first-place winner of the poetry contest that followed, Mungo Jerry's Fat Cat Cafe (Murphysboro, Illinois): Thursday, 6 December 2001
4. reader (selections from CLOSE and Fragments of a Formerly Active Sex Life), Mungo Jerry's Fat Cat Cafe (Murphysboro, Illinois): October 2001
5. singer (of "Parasite"), Antioch College's Student Center (Yellow Springs, Ohio): October 1994

• English 100: English Composition I (1 session in Fall 2002, 1 session in Spring 2003)

• English 101: English Composition I (2 sessions in Fall 1999)
• English 102: English Composition II (2 sessions in Spring 2000)

• The Scott D. Benson Honorary Award for Best Graduate Student Paper of Popular Culture Scholarship (awarded by the Independent Association of Graduate Students in English): 12 April 2002
• The Michael Kahn Prize for Excellence in Thesis (awarded by the same organization): 12 October 2001
• Award for Outstanding Teaching by a First-Year Graduate Assistant (awarded by the same organization): 27 September 2000
• The Scott D. Benson Honorary Award for Best Graduate Student Paper of Film Scholarship (awarded by the same organization): 14 April 2000
• The Alice S. Diderrich Prize in Creative Writing (a seldom-awarded prize from Lawrence University): 20 May 1998
• 1997 President's Award for Literary Excellence (awarded by the National Authors Registry for the poem "Relationship Afterglow")

• accepted for Ph.D. in English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and for the M.A. in Liberal Arts at St. John's University (Annapolis, Maryland), for study beginning in Summer / Fall 2002
• nominated for The Directory of American Scholars: 2001
• moderator for the panel "Revolutionary Revolutions" at the 55th Annual Conference of UFVA in Rochester, New York: Friday, 3 August 2001
• chosen as the credited writer for every article in The Lawrentian CXVI.17 (the April Fool's issue): 1999 (after graduation)
• voted "Most Likely to Lead a Rebellion" in the Edwardsville High School senior class: Spring 1994
• Certificate of Recognition from LeClaire Grade School for distinguished accomplishment in cello performance: 1 June 1987
• offered the opportunity to skip a grade (though parents declined): Spring 1985
• allowed to do math homework out of college textbooks (and spotted mistakes in same) because third-grade math too boring: Fall 1984 - Spring 1985

• Wendy O’Brien (of Central Queensland University) in Cercles: "in 'Car Crash Crucifixion Culture' Julian Darius provides a thoughtful and persuasive comment on the cult of the celebrity, citing the deified celebrity death as 'an attempt to replace the absent crucifixion.'" Going on to praise the essay as "excellent," she again quotes the essay, this time in commentary upon the volume as a whole.
• Randy Malamud (Georgia State University) in South Atlantic Review 67.2: "Julian Darius's essay, 'Car Crash Crucifixion Culture,' [has] far-reaching interpretive panache ... [and is] never dull." A lengthy quote from the essay, far exceeding that of any other contributor, was included.
• A reviewer at mungojerrys.com on the readings of Thursday, 6 December 2001: "the featured artist, Julian Darius, ... may have been a bit more cerebral than a lot of people are used too, but who cares, because he was really good. He wore a tux, minus cumberbun, with his shirt untucked and struck a kind of Oscar Wilde-ish chord with me. He read a villanelle, dedicated a poem to Ezra Pound's Cantos, and used many polysyllabic words. His delivery and content didn't have ... hip-hop energy ... , but like a fine dry wine, Julian's work was to be savored."

• 94th percentile, Verbal score on GRE General Test: November 1998.
• 84th percentile, Quantitative score on GRE General Test: November 1998.
• 74th percentile, Analytical score on GRE General Test: November 1998.

• Academic Nationalist University: Spring 2000 - present
• University Film and Video Association: 1998 - 2003
• The Independent Association of S.I.U.C. Graduate Students in English: Fall 1999 - Summer 2002
• Modern Language Association of America: 2000 - 2001
• Society for Cinema Studies: 1999 - 2001
• American Mensa: 1999 - 2001
• Alliance Française de Saint Louis: 1999 - 2000
• Eta Sigma Phi (the national classics honors society), Lawrence University chapter: Spring 1996 - Spring 1998
• The Salon (a small extracurricular group of Lawrence University students which met thrice-per-week for wine, dinner, and conversation at the home of William Chaney, a distinguished history professor): Fall 1996 - Spring 1998
• The Yuais (an alternative coeducational fraternity, formerly Phi Delta Gamma, at Lawrence University): Fall 1996 - Spring 1998
• Nou Archae (a small extracurricular group of Lawrence University students which met once per week for wine and conversation, now defunct): Fall 1996 - Spring 1998
• Appleton by Night (an acting and role-playing group at Lawrence University): Spring 1997
• Orchestra at Edwardsville High School, at Edwardsville Junior High, and (as Strings) at LeClaire Elementary School: Fall 1984 - Spring 1994
• Journalism Club at Edwardsville High School: Fall 1993 - Spring 1994
• Speech and Debate at Edwardsville High School: Fall 1991 - Spring 1993
• French Club at Edwardsville High School: Fall 1990 - Spring 1992
• Piano School at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville: Fall 1984 - Spring 1991
• Gifted Program at LeClaire Elementary School (including attendance at Gifted Summer School): Fall 1985 - Spring 1988
• Computer Camp at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville: Summer 1985, Summer 1986, Summer 1987, Summer 1988
• Science Camp at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville: Summer 1985, Summer 1986, Summer 1987, Summer 1988
• Band at LeClaire Elementary School: Fall 1985 - Spring 1986

• extensive extracurricular conversation with professors at schools attended, at academic conferences, and through my father's teaching positions, conferences, and publications: Fall 1994 (or earlier) - present
• considerable HTML programming, use of Microsoft Word and Excel, use of graphic manipulation programs, use of early e-mail and world wide web programs, and programming in Apple BASIC: Summer 1985 - present
• weekly volunteer English tutoring for minority and disadvantaged students: Fall 2001 - Spring 2002
• founded Academic Nationalist University, a theoretical academy: Spring 2000
• chairperson and producer of the Yuai Debate Series: Fall 1997
• participation in a structured live-action role-playing game for Appleton by Night in which I rose to the highest coveted highest position within weeks, generating what many felt to be the most excitement of the entire program: Spring 1997
• Minister of Propaganda (involving the timely computer construction of advertisements and the organization of their distribution) and Minister of Yelling (involving maintaining discipline) for the Yuais: Fall 1996 - Fall 1997
• intense personal activism at Antioch College designed to reform campus attitudes (involving but not limited to satirical poster campaigns, numerous conversations, the campus prosecution of vandals of art who would otherwise have escaped discipline, and numerous editorials and letters to the editor in The Antioch Record which included an editorial exposé on the school's attrition problem), resulting in great controversy and commonplace verbal and written attacks on myself and my friends: Fall 1994 - Spring 1995
• cello performance in Orchestra for nine years from fourth grade to high school graduation: Fall 1984 - Spring 1994
• journalistic activism designed to improve Edwardsville High School's The Tiger Times (planned with goals in Spring of 1993, including more-balanced articles unafraid to critique the administration as well as controversial editorials on meaningful topics), resulting in great controversy, administrative action, and student support: Spring 1993 - Spring 1994
• successful participation in Lincoln-Douglas debates at competitions, as well as participation in acting work, in Speech and Debate: Fall 1991 - Spring 1993
• piano performance through lessons at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville: Fall 1984 - Spring 1991
• clarinet performance in Band: Fall 1985 - Spring 1986